éconduire

French

Etymology

From an alteration, through the influence of conduire, of Old French escondire, itself from a Vulgar Latin *excondīcere, from Latin ex- + condīcere, present active infinitive of condīcō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.kɔ̃.dɥiʁ/

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Verb

éconduire

1. to dismiss, to get rid of (someone)
2. to refuse, to reject

Conjugation

Conjugation of éconduire (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	éconduire
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	éconduisant /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		éconduit /e.kɔ̃.dɥi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	éconduis /e.kɔ̃.dɥi/	éconduis /e.kɔ̃.dɥi/	éconduit /e.kɔ̃.dɥi/	éconduisons /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.zɔ̃/	éconduisez /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.ze/	éconduisent /e.kɔ̃.dɥiz/
	imperfect	éconduisais /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.zɛ/	éconduisais /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.zɛ/	éconduisait /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.zɛ/	éconduisions /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.zjɔ̃/	éconduisiez /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.zje/	éconduisaient /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.zɛ/
	past historic2	éconduisis /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.zi/	éconduisis /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.zi/	éconduisit /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.zi/	éconduisîmes /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.zim/	éconduisîtes /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.zit/	éconduisirent /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.ziʁ/
	future	éconduirai /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁe/	éconduiras /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁa/	éconduira /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁa/	éconduirons /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁɔ̃/	éconduirez /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁe/	éconduiront /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	éconduirais /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁɛ/	éconduirais /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁɛ/	éconduirait /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁɛ/	éconduirions /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁjɔ̃/	éconduiriez /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁje/	éconduiraient /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	éconduise /e.kɔ̃.dɥiz/	éconduises /e.kɔ̃.dɥiz/	éconduise /e.kɔ̃.dɥiz/	éconduisions /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.zjɔ̃/	éconduisiez /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.zje/	éconduisent /e.kɔ̃.dɥiz/
	imperfect2	éconduisisse /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.zis/	éconduisisses /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.zis/	éconduisît /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.zi/	éconduisissions /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.zi.sjɔ̃/	éconduisissiez /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.zi.sje/	éconduisissent /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.zis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	éconduis /e.kɔ̃.dɥi/	—	éconduisons /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.zɔ̃/	éconduisez /e.kɔ̃.dɥi.ze/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “éconduire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.